Haunted Halloween at Kool’s School

Haunted Halloween at Kool’s School
Author: Bruce R. Foster
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1525583484

This true storied bilingual children’s book, “Haunted Halloween at Kool's School - Lessons Learned” features a very hectic day for principal Kool at his elementary school on a highly memorable Halloween day. Twenty-four of illustrator Josh Stewart’s evocative, water coloured illustrations grace the book. Children enjoy finding a mini pic of principal Kool dressed as a clown hiding on any page containing a large illustration. The ultimate number of hidden mini pics is a subtle tribute to the late Kobe Bryant. The book portrays a number of unique activities that occur in many of our nation’s schools on this trick or treat day. As with all of Foster’s other four true storied books, a portion of the sale of each book sold supports Kids Help Phone (Canada).

Haunted Halloween at Kool's School: Lessons Learned

Haunted Halloween at Kool's School: Lessons Learned
Author: Bruce R. Foster
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781525583469

This true storied bilingual children's book, "Haunted Halloween at Kool's School - Lessons Learned" features a very hectic day for principal Kool at his elementary school on a highly memorable Halloween day. Twenty-four of illustrator Josh Stewart's evocative, water coloured illustrations grace the book. Children enjoy finding a mini pic of principal Kool dressed as a clown hiding on any page containing a large illustration. The ultimate number of hidden mini pics is a subtle tribute to the late Kobe Bryant. The book portrays a number of unique activities that occur in many of our nation's schools on this trick or treat day. As with all of Foster's other four true storied books, a portion of the sale of each book sold supports Kids Help Phone (Canada)....

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The Christ-Haunted Landscape

The Christ-Haunted Landscape
Author: Susan Ketchin
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2009-11-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496800966

Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work. A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: “By and large,” she said, “people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.” Guided by O'Connor's perceptive commentary about southerners in general, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that mirrors the pervasive role of religion in the literature by the recent generation of notable southern writers. Ketchin confirms that “old-time religion” remains a potent force in the literature of the contemporary South.

The Leader in Me

The Leader in Me
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 147110446X

Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.

Campaign for President

Campaign for President
Author: , The Institute of Politics
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0742570487

Every four years following the presidential election, the Institute of Politics at Harvard University convenes a distinguished gathering of campaign managers, media commentators, and interested political observers to reflect on presidential campaign strategies from the earliest primaries through Election Day. The result is a book, and the 2008 election edition is published for general audiences as well as college classrooms and campaign and media professionals.

A Feeling of Belonging

A Feeling of Belonging
Author: Shirley Jennifer Lim
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814751946

When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their presence felt in the United States. Though they were distinguished from previous generations by their American citizenship, it was only through these seemingly mundane “American”activities that they were able to overcome two-dimensional stereotypes of themselves as kimono-clad “Orientals.” Lim traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness, but their humanity: a feeling of belonging.

Challenges for Public Education

Challenges for Public Education
Author: Jane Wilkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429791933

An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private sector, a move from government to new forms of ‘strategic’ governance, and from hierarchy to heterarchy. Challenges for Public Education examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) in Western Australia and Queensland – and global policy moves in public education in order to provide a truly international dialogue and debate on these matters. This book moves beyond critique. It innovatively brings together Australian and international perspectives and a rich range of diverse theoretical lenses: practice philosophy, feminism, gender, relational, and postmodernism. As such, it provides a crucial forum for illuminating alternate ways to conceptualise educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope.

Horror Films of 2000-2009

Horror Films of 2000-2009
Author: John Kenneth Muir
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2023-03-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476644500

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These social and political changes, as well as the influences of Japanese horror and New French extremism, had a profound effect on American horror filmmaking during the 2000s. This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released in America from 2000 through 2009, including such popular forms as found footage, torture porn, and remakes. Each entry covers a single film and includes credits, a synopsis, and a lengthy critical commentary. The appendices include common horror conventions, a performer hall of fame, and memorable ad lines.